Over the past few weeks the original article has had several thousand new readers, a few of whom have contacted me about the list. Time to update it, with your help I hope.

I'm going to update it during February and I would like readers to contribute names of bloggers and influencers they think should be on the list. Please remember to add the Twitter handle.

Some baseline conditions. The idea is to discover those people who are most influential about social media. There are plenty of people blogging about a hundred different topics who have influence but the list will be those who teach, advise, opine and influence around social media and social business.

It's important, then, to nominate people who are creating original content, not just people who curate on Twitter.

Last time out I excluded corporate bloggers because they would not necessarily be strong on social media itself. But this time please propose away - I will create a separate list. I'll also create a list for PR influencers.

Once again I will use PeekAnalytics metrics. Once we have that list we can think about some form of public vote or perhaps a discussion around its validity, to adapt it, if consensus is at all possible!! But the initial list will be totally objective (based entirely on the numbers).

Last year I did most of the leg work because I was interested in finding out who the algorithm says is most influential. It would be truly great if you could help with your suggestions this time around - please put nominations in the comment box please. Bear in mind that the bar is very high. Power influencers have very large followings across all networks - and this metric focuses on the strength of those networks - particularly how active they are.

There has to be a deadline of course - three weeks from now, the 20th February.